Books like When prophecy fails by Leon Festinger

The Power of Habit shows how tiny habits shape our lives and how they can be transformed to achieve personal and organizational success.

sociology book

Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority documents an experiment where participants, following orders from an experimenter, administer electric shocks to learners, revealing how ordinary people can comply with harmful commands.

Discover What the Prophecy of 2012 Means for Your LifeAccording to the Mayan Elders, at the moment of birth every human being is given a destiny. Our life challenge is to develop ourselves and our skills in order to fulfill this destiny, thus fueling our individual contribution to the planet. At the heart of The Book of Destiny is the sacred Mayan calendar, an extraordinary tool that allows the reader to discover this destiny, along with one’s special Mayan symbol, origin, as well as the protection spirits that accompany them through life. Poetically narrated, the book describes how the calendar contains the scientific legacy of the Mayan people, preserved and transmitted over the centuries through oral tradition and written texts.Written at the request of the Mayan Elders, by member of the Guatemalan Elders Council and Mayan Priest Carlos Barrios, The Book of Destiny is a tool to help people understand their life purpose and to use this profound knowledge to make the best of their time on earth.

When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth century.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn.